Comparison

Consolidate vs The Book I Wrote

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Consolidate

This app helps students plan their studies, track learning progress, and adapt revision strategies. It allows you to list lessons, add notes and links, and log study sessions to identify areas needing more attention. Designed for high school and college students, it offers features like iCloud sync and interactive widgets.

Highlights
  • Plan study lessons
  • Track learning progress
  • Adapt revision strategies
  • Organize lessons with categories
  • Self-evaluate progress with traffic-light system
  • iCloud sync
  • Interactive widgets
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Take control of your learning with Consolidate – an intuitive revision planner and study companion. Designed for students at high school or college. 1. Plan Your Studies • List all the lessons you need to learn for your course. • Add learning outcomes, useful links, and notes. • Organize and filter lessons using categories. 2. Track Your Learning • Log whenever you study a lesson. • Note down what you did well, and what you need to work on. • Self-evaluate your progress using a traffic-light system. 3. Adapt Your Revision • As you track your learning, get an overview of your progress to guide future studying. • Easily see which lessons you understand well and which ones need more work. # Designed for Apple Platforms • iCloud sync • Live activities • Interactive widgets • Multiple windows • Shortcuts • Apple Watch App • Apple Watch Complications • Light and Dark Mode • Accessibility: VoiceOver, Dynamic Type • Calendar import • Spotlight At the moment, Consolidate is free to use. If you enjoy the app, you can leave a tip to support future development.

About

The Book I Wrote

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Your story deserves more than a blank page. The app interface is available in 12 languages. Set a writing language for each book; your manuscript is never translated or rewritten automatically. Writing intelligence remains optimized for English. The Book I Wrote guides fiction writers from the first idea to an exportable manuscript, with a local working copy and optional private iCloud sync. Plan the story, capture ideas, draft scene by scene, refine prose, protect continuity, and finish in one focused studio. BUILD A STORY YOU CAN FINISH Story Architect asks focused questions about character, desire, conflict, stakes, world, ending, and reader promise. Review its proposed outline, scene goals, and open decisions before adding anything to your book. WRITE ONE SCENE AT A TIME Organize chapters and scenes, keep planning notes beside your prose, search the manuscript, and return to automatic version snapshots. Long manuscripts are processed scene by scene, so one edit does not reprocess the whole book. REFINE WITHOUT LOSING YOUR VOICE Bookify offers Clean, Natural, and Expand modes with Apple Foundation Models on supported devices. Elsewhere, its conservative local fallback provides limited deterministic cleanup rather than claiming a complete literary rewrite. Compare the preserved original with every proposal, review possible new facts, and accept only what belongs in your manuscript. Voice Lock measures evidence from your sample and accepted edits, and lets you edit the final style guidance. KEEP THE WHOLE STORY CONNECTED Story Brain tracks characters, places, objects, events, relationships, timeline entries, plot threads, and author-approved canon. Local search retrieves the relevant scenes instead of loading an entire novel at once. FIND WEAK SPOTS BEFORE READERS DO Book Doctor and Beta Reader flag supported risks in consistency, duplication, pacing, transitions, clarity, predictability, and emotional impact. Findings are advisory and link back to evidence in your scenes. CAPTURE IDEAS WHEN THEY HAPPEN Save text, dictate directly into a scene, record a thought, or import audio. On-device transcription is available when Apple Speech supports the selected language. You always decide where an idea belongs. FINISH AND EXPORT Create plain text, DOCX, PDF, or reflowable EPUB 3 from an immutable manuscript snapshot. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No developer account. No ads. No analytics SDK. No developer manuscript server. No paid AI API. Version 1.1 keeps a local working copy and core writing tools work offline. Optional private iCloud sync is off until you enable it. Eligible writing records then use your private CloudKit database; private record contents are not visible in Apple’s developer portal. Audio recordings and rebuildable derived indexes remain device-local. FREE TO BEGIN. PRO FOR LIFE. The free edition supports one local book with up to two chapters. A seven-day trial unlocks the complete studio, including optional private iCloud sync when available. Lifetime Pro is one non-consumable purchase—never a subscription. Plain-text export remains free so your writing is never trapped. Apple Foundation Models features require a compatible Apple Intelligence device and system version. Speech availability varies by installed language and device support. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Consolidate4 screens
The Book I Wrote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: The Book I Wrote at every 4 days against Consolidate's every 11 days. Consolidate's advantage is device support (5 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Consolidate sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and The Book I Wrote sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Consolidate ships an update every 11 days, The Book I Wrote every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Consolidate versus The Book I Wrote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterConsolidateThe Book I Wrote
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas BaughanMiroslav Pulik

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Consolidate

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$2.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
1 purchases

The Book I Wrote

One-time1
  • Lifetime Pro$39.99

Questions

Is Consolidate free?
Consolidate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Book I Wrote free?
The Book I Wrote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Consolidate or The Book I Wrote have ads?
Neither Consolidate nor The Book I Wrote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Consolidate or The Book I Wrote?
Consolidate ships an update every 11 days, and The Book I Wrote every 4 days. Most recently, Consolidate was updated on October 8, 2026 and The Book I Wrote on October 25, 2026.

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